Marina Squerciati Has Figured Out Her ‘Co-Workers’ Are Funneling Money On Chicago P.D. – Looper

As seen in this YouTube clip from a 2022 One Chicago Day event featuring Marina Squerciati and fellow “Chicago P.D.” regulars Amy Morton and Tracy Spiridakos, Marina has definite suspicions about how some of her fellow cops can afford to live as they do. The moment arises when the three of them are asked about their favorite scenes to watch in the series.

Squerciati singles out the time Spiridakos’ Detective Hailey Upton and former Detective Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) are sharing a quiet moment together at their apartment. “Oh!” Squerciati says, as if suddenly recalling the scene. “When you guys were like eating Chinese on the steps of your million-dollar apartment?” The clip then shows Upton and Halstead in a shot of the distinctly upscale digs, with a spectacular view of nighttime Chicago’s lights visible through the glass doors and windows behind them. “By the way, Kim Burgess lives in a hovel,” Squerciati notes, before adding her tongue-in-cheek accusation that her co-workers are skimming illicit cash from somewhere, saying: “And you guys are like, you’re clearly funneling money.”

The truth is, even fans noticed the issue, with one Redditor u/IndividualSchedule complaining, “The apartment that Kim has is probably the most realistic…but no way Upton and Jay could afford theirs, not even from [a detective’s] salary.”